Your Username - why & what does it mean?

[HuntingPudel]

A nod to arcade times where you you only get 3 letters and then got 4 since there were many using ASR always put 1 after it became my call sign in the arcades ASR1.

LOL my gamer tag in Halo used to be F001 (those are zeroes). ??

EDIT: The Halo fonts made my tag look like “F00l” since there was no descender on the 1. ??

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[Teslaeata]

So glad I started this, some amazing stories behind our usernames, replies are just priceless, god how I love this forum, Stangy, my life, this Scotch is good tonight ?

 

[david_quick]

It’s my actual name. I don’t hide behind alias’.

 

[Blue highway]

This was playing when I registered for the forum

 

[Teslaeata]

This was playing when I registered for the forum

Got to be the coolest yet, can’t beat a bit of Billy Idol ?

 

[ReverendPete]

I was an on-air personality (read 'DJ') at a popular alternative rock radio station for most of the 90's. In 1992, when the band, Ministry, released the Psalm 69 album, I was the air-personality that was hosting an advanced listening party of that album for our listeners (which happened to be held at a goth/industrial nightclub that I owned at the time), and one of our interns wrote up a promo blurb to be read on the air in the week leading up to the event.

The intern decided to play on the whole religion theme in the promo (ministry, psalms...), where they had said something like "we're sending our own 'reverend', Pete, to host the festivities..." and so all the other jocks started calling me "Reverend Pete".

After about 4 months of trying to get rid of the nickname, it just stuck and became my on-air personality. And it still follows me today, 33 years later... So I just decided to embrace it, and I use it (or variations of it) for almost all of my online profiles for forums, gaming, etc.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Only Canadians have airports as locations. Sad part is I know almost all of them by heart ???‍

I’ve spent too many winter weekends in Calgary at -20 F, and summer evenings hauling a 747 or MD-11 full of cows from Edmonton to remember Canadian airports particularly fondly. But I do remember.

The worst were pigs though. We sealed our suitcases in plastic otherwise the smell would permeate your clothes and the suitcase itself. We’re talking burn the contents worthy smell. Oh and they’re smart, they could open the pens they were in. That was a hoot for the ground crews upon arrival,

 

[GreaseMonkey]

I’ve spent too many winter weekends in Calgary at -20 F, and summer evenings hauling a 747 or MD-11 full of cows from Edmonton to remember Canadian airports particularly fondly. But I do remember.

The worst were pigs though. We sealed our suitcases in plastic otherwise the smell would permeate your clothes and the suitcase itself. We’re talking burn the contents worthy smell. Oh and they’re smart, they could open the pens they were in. That was a hoot for the ground crews upon arrival,

Now if Canadian would just stop flipping our planes on icy runways, that would be extremely helpful.

 

[AllenXS]

Shush you! Don't give it away!

Please do, I’m struggling to work it out

 

[AllenXS]

Now if Canadian would just stop flipping our planes on icy runways, that would be extremely helpful.

What’s wrong with our flipping service?

 

[AllenXS]

I live in a neighborhood named Highland Meadows, the HOA map shows us as lot 58. I got tired of the old username and wanted something obscure.

Thought you were Scottish

 

[AllenXS]

Mine is based on my name using an X rather than _. Well before others started using X.

It’s on most platforms I go on so likely to be me if you see it elsewhere.

 

[cheerioboy26]

Mine goes back to the mid to late 90s and my initial NASCAR fandom. I use it just about everywhere.

 

[generaltso]

I like the chicken.

 

[HuntingPudel]

I like the chicken.

You should… Since it’s yours. ??

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